"FORD backwards:
Drivers
Return
On
Foot"
I got an ironic laugh out of that one.
After figuring that I have transferred $158,000 of my money over the past 22 years to Ford Motor Company, I guess that I've got a right to have an opinion on their products. I probably won't be buying any more. After dealing with absolutely inadequate transmissions, problematic and unreliable Diesels, unfixable front ends, repeated failures of frame fasteners, goofy computers and electricals, I can at least say that the A/C's blew ice cold air. Seeing more of the service manager than my family is not an acceptable ownership experience, and it is bad business for me as well.
We own 2 Cummins and they are excellent in general, but even they have the occaisional small annoyance, such as the throttle control shaft of a Bosch injector pump breaking off last week. But the Cummins are truly industrial grade. Too bad they are an anti-gun rights corporation. We have leased Internationals w/ DT-466s (reliable, solid as tanks) and Sterlings with small Cats (overworked small engine in a good truck).
Somewhere in my pile of truck related junk is a Ford corporate-to-dealer memo about their philosophy behind their Diesel concept for a short stroke design, low profile V configuration. Pedal feel like gas, revs like gas, acceleration like gas, computer controls to make it behave like gas, fake cover over the engine so it would look like gas......basically do everything possible to turn a Diesel into a gas engine so that it would not offend the soccer dads who would be buying pickups. At least the Dodge philosophy was to make a Diesel truck like....a Diesel truck.
About saw torque, I guess my 038M has a fair amount of old fashioned grunt, for a mid-size saw anyway.
